Brabant 1650(h) ducaton Dav-4454
This specimen was lot 569 in Schulman auction 379 (Amsterdam, June 2024), where it sold for €150 (about US$193 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"BRABANT - Ducaton 1650, Silver, PHILIPPE IV 1621-1665 Anvers. 2me type. Buste du roi avec mince collet a droite, en haut main entre le millesime .PHIL. IIII. D. G. HISP. ET. INDIAR. REX. R/. ecu couronne et supporte par deux lions .ARCHID. AVST. DV - X. BVRG. BRAB. Z- C. Presque Tres beau a Tres beau. Bijna zeer fraai/Zeer fraai. (duchy of Brabant, Philip IV, 1621-65, silver ducaton of 1650, Antwerp mint, second type. Obverse: bust right in thin collar, hand mintmark and date above; reverse: crowned arms supported by two lions. About very fine to very fine.)"
Ducatons were issued in the Spanish Netherlands and associated states (including the bishopric of Liège and Franche Comte) during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, where they competed with French écus, German talers and Dutch daalders and patagons. Fractional ducatons are much less frequently encountered. The regular type, issued 1636-65 from Antwerp (shown here, with hand mintmark) and Brussels, is scarce but not rare. The other provinces issued this type, including Artois, Flanders, Tournai and Luxembourg.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 32.48 g, 0.944 fine silver; this specimen 32.34 g.
Catalog reference: KM 72.1, GH. 327.1b; Delm-284; de W. 1001/2; Dav-4454.
- van Gelder, H. Enno, and Marcel Hoc, Les Monnaies des pays-Bas Bourguignons et Espagnols, 1434-1713, Amsterdam, J. Schulman, 1960, with supplement of 1964.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Davenport, John S., European Crowns, 1600-1700, Galesburg, IL, 1974.
- [1]Absil, Eddy, Florentine van Hees, Tim Poelman, Catelijne van den Bosch, Evert Philippeau, Andrew Absil, Schulman sale 379, Amsterdam: Schulman b.v., 2024.
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